Quotes about Indifference

So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard, or smelt: and a good stomach as indifferent to all kinds of food, as a millstone is, to whatsoever she was made for to grind. As ready therefore must a sound understanding be for whatsoever shall happen. But he that saith, O that my children might live! and, O that all men might commend me for whatsoever I do! is an eye that seeks after green things; or as teeth, after that which is tender.

Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?

To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.

Suppose someone despises me. That's their concern, not mine. My concern is to live in harmony with nature and reason, so that my actions won't be worthy of contempt.

In this country you can say what you like because no one will listen to you anyway.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Why is it that, today, the masses are so utterly unconcerned about spiritual and eternal things, and that they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God? Why is it that, even on the battlefields, multitudes were so indifferent to their soul's welfare? Why is it that defiance of heaven is becoming more open, more blatant, more daring? The answer is, Because "There is no fear of God before their eyes" (Rom 3:18).

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.